You miss the point here. Microsoft has a huge interest in maintaining the
integrity of its intellectual property. The GPL and other licenses that
govern open source software would provide no protection for any software
that Microsoft would write nor would there be any recourse for reverse
engineering their software to enable it to run on linux.
You want to marry apples and oranges but it is not going to happen, at least
not soon. If there is a compelling reason for Microsoft to make this move,
which at present there is NOT, then they may consider it.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, brbm asked:
| Can't see the forest for the trees I take it. The point I was getting
| at is that many profile companies in many markets are embracing Linux
| at an ever growing rate. I believe Microsofts tunel vision will
| eventually lead to its own self consumption unless it chooses to
| adapt rather than conquer because, as you have said, every OS has its
| place. And, as I said, Linux isn't going away. I believe the number
| of people using Linux will continue to grow and Microsoft can
| capitalize on this by providing high quality applications designed
| for the Linux market.
|
| As Far as Linux users wanting everything free and open source...well,
| doesn't everyone?
|
| "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
|
|| Have you taken the time to look at any of the website URL's that you
|| posted to me..
||
|| Many companies and institutions already use UNIX/AIX running on
|| hugely expensive equipment.. I would wager that UNIX/AIX is losing
|| out to Linux because the hardware that runs Linux is way cheaper and
|| almost as good at doing specific tasks..
||
|| Apple Computers have absolutely no desire to use MS Windows..
||
|| IBM already have AIX, and had OS2 been worth anything, the company
|| would never have used MS Windows corporately.. unfortunately for
|| IBM, they will have a tougher time selling their AIX based mid range
|| computing systems as pc based servers running Linux are much more
|| affordable.. and I believe that the corporate workstation platform
|| is W2K..
||
|| Percentages mean not a whole hell of a lot..
||
|| None of the uses of Linux as above require an Office suite.. so that
|| brings us back to the casual Linux user/supporter who uses Linux
|| because it isn't Microsoft.. who uses Linux because it is free.. who
|| uses Linux because he/she believes that it makes a person appear to
|| be more technically able..
||
|| Notice that at no point have I made a statement that Linux has no
|| place anywhere.. all OS'es have their place..
||
|| --
|| Mike Hall
|| MVP - Windows Shell/user
||
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|| ||| Perhaps you are talking of the U.S. Department of Energy when you
||| say "Linux
||| users want everything free and open source"
|||
http://home.businesswire.com/portal...d=news_view&newsId=20050202005043&newsLang=en
||| Or are you talking of AOL or Apple Computer?
|||
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-237031.html?legacy=cnet
||| You could be speeking of IBM...
|||
http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/
||| With respect to value...
|||
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1743237,00.asp
||| "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
|||
|||| Linux users want everything free and open source, and as many
|||| Linux users would have us believe that OpenOffice is just as good,
|||| I see little point in
|||| your statement..
||||
|||| --
|||| Mike Hall
|||| MVP - Windows Shell/user
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|||| ||||| Microsoft should publish versions of its software (particularly
||||| its Office
||||| software) for use by users of Linux based OS. It seems to me that
||||| Microsoft
||||| is missing a significant market by turning its back on Linux.
||||| Rather than
||||| trying to edge it out, Microsoft should capitalize on it. Linux
||||| isn't going
||||| to go away, so ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist is
||||| ridiculous.
